The Board of Directors and employees of the Canada-Israel Industrial R&D Foundation (CIIRDF) honour the late Keith Parsonage, Former Director General at Industry Canada and, valued member of the CIIRDF Board of Directors for more than 12 years. Along with his many colleagues and friends in Canada and Israel, we are grateful for his dedicated service, leadership and commitment to the promotion of Canada-Israel R&D and technology partnership. We extend our sincere condolences to his family.